23:31
Terming the Modi government as the world's most anti-intellectual for questioning experts on GDP figures, former Finance Minister P Chidambaram today said the economy will take 12-18 months to recover from the devastating impact of demonetisation. It (the government) even...
23:23
A RSS leader who was sacked form the right-wing outfit for declaring Rs 1 crore bounty on Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, has been booked by police.Kundan Chandravat has been booked for on charges of inciting violence under Section 505 of the IPC.The developments came a day after...
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An encounter broke out between militants and security forces in Shopian district of Kashmir tonight. The gunfight erupted after security forces launched a cordon-and-search operation in Chillipora village of the district following information about presence of militants there, a police...
22:20
People will have to wait for one more day to know the outcome of exit polls as the Election Commission today postponed their telecast to March 9 evening after elections to one seat each in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand are over.The last phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh and Manipur is on March 8....
22:13
India today downplayed its participation in an upcoming meeting in Pakistan to discuss various aspects of the Indus Waters Treaty, saying it does not amount to resumption of government-level Indo-Pak talks, whichhave been stalled over terrorist strikes by Pak-based groups.Senior government...
21:00
Airports across the country have been alerted about the possibility of UP Minister Gayatri Prajapati, accused of rape, trying to flee the country. A Letter of Cancellation will soon be opened against him and all airports have been alerted to prevent the 49-year-old Prajapati from fleeing the...
20:51
In a setback to Sasikala, the Election Commission has refused to acknowledge TTV Dinakaran's response to its query on allegations of VK Sasikala's wrongful appointment as interim General Secretary of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, as he is not an office bearer in EC's records.The EC...
20:49
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader Kundan Chandravat, who had announced a bounty of Rs 1 crore for beheading the Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, was sacked by the right-wing outfit.Kundan who made controversial statement (on Kerala CM) at Ujjain protest meeting has been relieved of all...
19:45
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader Kundan Chandravat, who had announced a bounty of Rs 1 crore for beheading the Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, was sacked by the right-wing outfit.Kundan who made controversial statement (on Kerala CM) at Ujjain protest meeting has been relieved of all...
19:34
The Indo-Nepal border has been sealed, 24 hours before the polling in the sixth of the seven phased Uttar Pradesh assembly polls begins tomorrow. Voting for 49 Uttar Pradesh assembly seats will be held on March 4.The 84 km long Indo-Nepal border will be sealed 24 hours prior to the start of...
19:16
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today reviewed the security situation in the country, especially in Jammu and Kashmir and other border areas. National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi, Director of Intelligence Bureau Rajiv Jain and other senior officials...
18:45
Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati today attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party saying its own cadre would teach its leaders a lesson for fielding 'baagi' (rebels) and 'daagi' (tainted) candidates in the UP assembly elections. The BJP has become the number one party of the...
17:49
RSS leader Kundan Chandravat retracts bounty on Kerala CM, expresses regret. The leader says he got over-emotional after RSS deaths. To bring you up to speed, Chandravat on Thursday kicked up a row when he announced a Rs 1 crore bounty for beheading Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. The...
17:41
The BSF today repatriated an elderly Pakistani national who was arrested after inadvertently crossing over to the Indian side. The Pakistani national had crossed the International Border in Arnia sector yesterday, a BSF officer said. He was handed over to Pakistani Rangers at a Border Outpost...
17:14
BJP leader Shaina NC files a police complaint against a stalker who has been harassing her by sending vulgar messages through WhatsApp.
17:12
Interesting speech. President Pranab Mukherjee's verdict on US President Donald Trump's address to Congress delivered Tuesday night. President Mukherjee was reading a 17-page printout of Trump's speech aboard Air India One en route to Delhi from Chennai today. The president asked the...
16:49
Officials are investigating the cause of a fire that started at the Trump International Hotel and Tower in New York, reports the Independent.The blaze started on the 47th floor of the building, which overlooks Central Park, in the early hours of Friday morning.The fire brigade was called at...
16:30
Democrat Senator Mark Warner called upon Pakistan not to play both ways, by claiming to curb terrorism, while letting terror groups sneak into India.Pakistan cannot play both ways. On one hand, they say we are curbing terrorism and on the other, let other terror groups to sneak into India,...
16:06
The Union government representatives will meet the Dalai Lama when he visits Arunachal Pradesh in April, officials said, despite a warning from China that it would damage bilateral ties.India said the Tibetan spiritual leader will make a religious trip to Arunachal Pradesh next month, and as a...
15:59
A scuffle broke out in Agra between media persons and actor Sanjay Dutt's security guards during the shooting of his comeback film Bhoomi near the Taj Mahal.The incident took place when the film's unit was shooting at Kalakriti Taj VIP road yesterday. The bouncers started pushing the crowd away...
15:43
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has sent a personal message to 24-year-old Ian Grillot, who was injured while trying to intervene during a shooting in which an Indian techie was killed in Kansas, and wished him a speedy recovery. The Indian Consul-General in Houston, Anupam Ray, met...
15:41
China on Friday warned India against allowing the Dalai Lama to visit Arunachal Pradesh, saying it would cause serious damage to the bilateral ties and peace in the disputed border region. China is gravely concerned over information that India has granted permission to the Dalai to visit...
15:08
Two security personnel were killed and as many injured in an exchange of fire with Naxals in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Friday, police said. The skirmish took place near Cherli village under Mirtur Police Station limits when a joint team of Chhattisgarh Armed Force and district...
14:57
French football legend Raymond Kopa dies aged 85: AFP
14:46
A Maharashtra court on Friday adjourned till April 21 the defamation case filed by the RSS against Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's remark regarding Mahatma Gandhi's assassination.Gandhi was not present in the court today.Earlier in November last year, Gandhi was granted bail on the...
14:43
Pakistan has categorically ruled out possibility of handing over a former Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Yadav to India. Pakistan believes Yadav is a RAW agent. Radio Pakistan has this story: Pakistan's advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz informed the Pakistan Senate today that the process has...
14:24
Karnataka: Congress leader and former minister Kumar Bangarappa (son of former CM Sarekoppa Bangarappa), joins BJP.
13:46
Not long after Prakash Jha's 'Lipstick Under My Burkha' was denied certification, the Central Board for Film Certification (CBFC) has found its latest victim in the Malayalam film 'Ka Bodyscapes' and FTII chairman Gajendra Chauhan justifies its move.I would like to appreciate Censor Board and...
13:30
The Supreme Court today refused to grant an urgent hearing on fresh PIL seeking independent probe into the alleged suicide of former Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Kalikho Pul. Sorry. Declined, a bench comprising Cheif Justice J S Khehar and Justices D Y Chandrachud and S K Kaul said. Advocate...
12:51
Shabana Azmi will be speaking at The House Of Lords in the UK Parliament on Identity and Integration on 9th March on the theme, Separate but Equal', she tweets.
12:48
Just in: Suspected militants hurled grenades at a CRPF post in South Kashmir's Pulwama district. Two jawans have been injured. The CRPF post is at a busy market area. Last month, another grenade attack took place in Kakapora area in Pulwama. Prior to that an attack by Hizbul Mujahideen militants...
12:29
An Indian-origin girl in the US has been allegedly racially abused by an African-American man (pictured alongside) who called her inappropriate names and yelled get out of here when she was travelling in a busy commuter train. Ekta Desai, who lives in New York, took a video of the incident that...
12:13
The Congress Party's students wing, NSUI, starts the 'Gift a rose' campaign outside Ramjas college to restore peace in the campus.Teachers, students and journalists were wounded on the Delhi University campus as group clashes broke out over the disruption of a literary festival in Ramjas College...
11:51
Bijapur (Chhattisgarh): Two jawans injured in an ongoing encounter between police and Naxals in Mirtur area.
11:45
Actor Govinda says the film industry has big camps and feels it was a wrong move on his part to not get into any. The 53-year-old actor had a successful career in the 90s but it slowed down after he joined politics in mid-2000s. Though he made a comeback of sorts with Partner, his recent outings...
11:31
The Congress or Kejriwal may be corrupt but at least you will not be thrashed black and blue. Your children will not be threatened by those regimes. If the Aurangzeb road memory is valid, then the memory of the 2002 Gujarat riots is also valid.In an interview with Rediff.coms Syed...
11:28
When the Congress party vanishes as a national force (meaning when it can no longer get sufficient votes to hold onto its symbol, the hand), it will not have been the first large Indian party to die, says Aakar Patel. Read the column here.
11:16
SC agrees to hear on Monday the plea of Gopal Ansal against the jail term in Uphaar fire case. A fresh plea has been filed by real estate baron Gopal Ansal seeking modification of the SC verdict asking him to serve the remaining jail term in the Uphaar fire case.The apex court had...
11:09
The Times of India reports: An Army jawan who had figured in a sting operation by a news website criticising the 'sahayak' (orderly) system last month was found dead in mysterious conditions in an abandoned barrack in Deolali Cantonment in Maharashtra on Thursday. Roy Mathew, a gunner, was found...
10:59
Edappadi K Palaniswami, who took oath as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister last month, will chair his maiden cabinet meeting at the State Secretariat in Chennai on Friday.Palaniswami had won the vote of confidence by a steep 122-11 margin after eviction of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) members...
10:47
News18 reports: 'Whistleblower' Army Sahayak Mathew Roy found dead in his barracks in Deolali; Amy says he committed suicide.
10:31
Noted lyricist Javed Akhtar, who had hit out at Virender Sehwag for his comments on Delhi University student Gurmehar Kaur, has said that he takes back his harsh words as the cricketer has already clarified his statements. Since Sehwag undoubtedly a great player has clarified he was just being...
10:23
Market benchmark BSE Sensex stretched its losses to the second day today, shedding over 88 points in early trade on sustained profit-booking by investors after recent gains. Besides, a weak trend in other Asian bourses after a broad global rally, weighed on the trading sentiments here. The...
09:56
Hollywood legend Jane Fonda has revealed that she was raped and sexually abused when she was a child. The 79-year-old star, in an interview with actress Brie Larson for Net-a-Porter's The Edit, explained that she often felt diminished with the men in her life, according to The Hollywood...
09:32
The Supreme Court will on Monday hear the issue of compensation in the Sardar Sarovar Project on the river Narmada.The apex court had earlier in its order awarded a compensation of Rs. 60 lakh each to 681 families affected by the Sardar Sardar Project in Madhya Pradesh and an amount of Rs 15 lakh...
09:32
The Communist Party of India office at Nadapuram in Kozhikode, Kerala was set on fire in an apparent retaliation for a crude bomb attack on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh office hours earlier, NDTV reported quoting police sources.Four RSS workers were injured after some unknown persons hurled a...
09:01
Snapchat owner Snap Inc rode a wave of euphoria in its Wall Street debut today as investors sent shares of the popular messaging app soaring. In midday trade, Snap jumped 47 per cent to $25.06 in its market debut after raising USD 3.4 billion, in the richest US tech company listing since...
08:58
Kerala has become the best Indian state -- at par with US -- for new born babies with the 'God's own country' managing to bring down the Infant Mortality Rate 6.The IMR -- number of children under the age of 1 who die for every 1,000 born -- was released by the National Family Health Survey-4 in...
08:54
US Senator Mark Warner, who is Co-Chair of the Senate India caucus and Ranking member of powerful Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has said that while India and the US have a very strong relationship between the intelligence community, there is enormous concern not only about Pakistan's...
08:44
India is set to participate in the meeting of the Permanent Indus Commission, scheduled to be held in Lahore in March.Pakistan forwarded the invitation to India to resolve the Indus Water Treaty, sources say.The Permanent Indus Commission is a bilateral commission of officials from India and...
08:25
US President Donald Trump has just released a statement on the scandal surrounding his Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Sessions is accused of lying to Congress about his conversations with Russian officials. Yet, he insists he did not speak with Russia about any political campaigns, which...
00:19
Taloja jail authorities sought the special NIA court's nod to shift Lt Col Prasad Purohit, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, from the prison's hospital, where he has been staying for seven years, to a high-security 'anda cell'. The authorities told the court that...
00:04
The Syrian army said on Thursday it had recaptured the ancient city of Palmyra from Islamic State for the second time in a year, with help from allied forces and Russian warplanes.Islamic State retook Palmyra in a surprise advance in December, after having been driven out eight months before....